THE BURT WORD READING TEST (New Zealand Revision) RECORD FORM (1974 revised)

Name:…………………………………………………………………………………… Number correct

School:……………………………………………………Sex:………………………… Equivalent Age Band

Age:…………………………years………………months…….Class……………….. Norms Used (Circle one) Boys Girls Boys & Girls

to is up he at

for my sun one of

big some his or an

went boys that girl water

just day wet pot things

no told love now sad

nurse carry quickly village scramble

journey terror return twisted shelves

beware explorer known projecting tongue

serious domineer obtain belief luncheon

emergency events steadiness nourishment fringe

formulate scarcely universal commenced overwhelmed

circumstances destiny urge labourers exhausted

trudging refrigerator melodrama encyclopaedia apprehend

motionless ultimate atmosphere reputation binocular

economy theory humanity philosopher contemptuous

autobiography excessively champagne terminology perambulating

efficiency unique perpetual mercenary glycerine

influential atrocious fatigue exorbitant physician

microscopical contagion renown hypocritical fallacious

phlegmatic melancholy palpable eccentricity constitutionally

alienate phthisis poignancy ingratiating subtlety

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